Category Archives: Wordpress

The deal with all the new posts…

So for the avid followers who may have noticed a difference in the posts of late, I’ve cross-linked and syndicated the posts from the InBloom Shop Software website into the SWL blog.  At the very least, this helps the many readers that bounce between the two blogs and sites.  This was wonderfully easy to set [...]
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Secure your installation of WordPress

Lately, I’ve been noticing a lot more attacks on WordPress installations I’ve set up.  Images and false addresses have been injected into various folders and files.  So I’ve been reviewing a lot of general security procedures to ensure that such occurrences don’t happen again. I also found a great presentation which documents various techniques for really [...]
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The problems with Jquery & Wordpress as a CMS

I’m a big fan of increasing productivity by having computers do work for me. With the release of the website for InBloom version 2.0, I decided to use Wordpress as a CMS (content management system) so I wouldn’t have to fire up Dreamworks to make a correction or an update. So far, it’s been working [...]
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A review of Wordpress Theme WPRemix3…

So after spending many hours re-writing and developing InBloom, I relaunched the site using Wordpress as a CMS.  I also wanted to save myself the headache and purchase an out-of-the-box / “premium” theme for Wordpress to save myself the time of developing a new theme from scratch.  I looked at various options including Thematic, Thesis, [...]
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A nice introduction to AJAX

For those looking for a nice intro to AJAX, both Michael of Binary Bonsai and IBM Developer Works have writeups. Michael’s is more about the Scriptaculous JavaScript library, but it’s worth reading. You can find Michael’s writeup here and IBM’s writeup here. The scant posts here at SWL are a product of a lot [...]
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Small blog update…

I recently discovered a small problem with some of the Theme Switcher code and the Recent Comments plugin that was part of the Elvgren theme on this site (all you Elvgren users don’t have to worry about this), but I’ve turned off the cookie that stores your theme preference, so the site may suddenly display [...]
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An interesting time in Wordpress theme design

For those who have not been viewing the site through their favorite newsreader, have noticed the tweaks and changes to the blog design which have been the result of several things: Most importantly, some of the new designs I’m experimenting with for both Taft and Elvgren The evolution of Michael’s K2 project My most recent discovery, through the [...]
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Condensed Archives = “Monthchunks”

As per a question by Eric, if there are any others of you interested in how the Archives display like: 2005 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 2004 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 with each # obviously pertaining to a month, the answer is MonthChunks. A fairly easy [...]
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The future of Wordpress?

The future is coming, the question is really what will it be and where will we end up? I’m absolutely fascinated by the progress on Wordpress, the community that has sprouted up around it, its proliferation of web standards, and the future of web apps. Wordpress isn’t the root of things like AJAX, [...]
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I Concur: “Embrace The Scroll”

Echoing the rebirth of thought in web design, I read (along with much of the rest of the design blogosphere apparently) an interesting if somewhat controversial postulate in web design: “Embrace the scroll” A Brief History For those not privy to the discussion, after the initial revolution in web design when pages/sites went from LOOOOOOONG pages of [...]
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